Ok! You spoke... we listened! Completely re-mastered release of complete Alan Silvestri soundtrack for John McTiernan alien action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes as both licensor (20th Century Fox) and composer seek re-release of wildly popular score to wider market. You asked for every drop of blood, we now give it to you. New CD restores tiny bits edited from earlier issue, removes select crossfades, includes brief cue "The Aftermath" prior to "End Credits". CD plays in chronological order as originally scored by composer. Silvestri's incredibly muscular score is dynamite example of scoring via small motifs. Rhythmic punctuation in low brass, melded with busy percussion figures, creates incredibly terse, aggressive foundation for melodic ideas in strings, upper brass. Another cool idea has heroic musical signature for Schwarzenegger anchoring score yet almost all motifs, ideas are rooted in minor harmonies, not the expected major. Resulting music remains grim, tough, violent throughout! Intrada MAF series release with modest enhancement to original graphic design by Joe Sikoryak plus reprise of informative liner notes from Julie Kirgo. Alan Silvestri conducts.
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Ok! You spoke... we listened! Completely re-mastered release of complete Alan Silvestri soundtrack for John McTiernan alien action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes as both licensor (20th Century Fox) and composer seek re-release of wildly popular score to wider market. You asked for every drop of blood, we now give it to you. New CD restores tiny bits edited from earlier issue, removes select crossfades, includes brief cue "The Aftermath" prior to "End Credits". CD plays in chronological order as originally scored by composer. Silvestri's incredibly muscular score is dynamite example of scoring via small motifs. Rhythmic punctuation in low brass, melded with busy percussion figures, creates incredibly terse, aggressive foundation for melodic ideas in strings, upper brass. Another cool idea has heroic musical signature for Schwarzenegger anchoring score yet almost all motifs, ideas are rooted in minor harmonies, not the expected major. Resulting music remains grim, tough, violent throughout! Intrada MAF series release with modest enhancement to original graphic design by Joe Sikoryak plus reprise of informative liner notes from Julie Kirgo. Alan Silvestri conducts.
01. Fox Logo (Alfred Newman/Arranged by Elliot Goldenthal 1992) (0:26) 02. Main Title (3:52) 03. Something Else/Cut 'Em Down/Payback Time (7:37) 04. The Truck (4:23) 05. Jungle Trek (1:48) 06. Girl's Escape (5:59) 07. Blain's Death (0:47) 08. What Happened? (2:01) 09. He's My Friend (1:26) 10. We're Gonna Die (3:29)
The powerhouse
score Alan Silvestri wrote for Predator in 1987 quickly
became a sought-after fan favorite. It also became a
highly influential work that served as inspiration for
numerous subsequent action film scores. Ironically,
no soundtrack album was made available until Nick
Redman gave it a spectacular world premiere in 2003
for the Varese Sarabande label using the best master
elements available at the time. That limited edition
CD sold out quickly and soon became a high-priced
collector’s item.
For this brand new presentation of the soundtrack for
Predator, producers Nick Redman and Douglass Fake
have turned to DAT (digital audio tape) transfers of the
original stereo scoring session mixes made by Dennis
Sands, re-mastering the entire score for improved sonics,
especially regarding tape noise levels. As the detailed
booklet notes by Julie Kirgo illuminate, numerous postproduction
changes on the film included altering the
placement and duration of several cues. Every cue on
this CD is presented chronologically—in its original,
intended picture sequence.
So sit back and enjoy one of Alan Silvestri’s most
dynamic and thrilling creations. If ever there was a score
best played at pumped-up volumes… this is it!
—Douglass Fake
Composed and Conducted by Alan Silvestri. Recorded on May 13-20, 1987, at Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles, California.
VIOLIN Anatol Kaminsky
Erno Neufeld
Eudice Shapiro
Byron Williams
Thelma Beach
David Frisina
Felix Slatkin
Nathan Kaproff
Alex Murray
Marvin Limonick
George Kast
Sam Freed
Herman Clebanoff
Benny Gill
Irma Neumann
Joseph Stepansky
Saundra Berkova
Ralph Schaeffer
Bernard Gerrard
Ambrose Russo
Mort Herbert
Manuel Compinsky
Leon Trebacz
Joachim Chassman
VIOLA Virginia Majewski
Alvin Dinkin
Robert Ostrowski
Joseph Reilich
Louis Kievman
Joseph DiFiore
Dorothy Colton
G. R. Menhennick
CELLO Armand Kaproff
Edgar Lustgarten
Raphael Kramer
Eleanor Slatkin
Justin DiTullio
Emmet Sargeant
Anne Goodman
Kurt Reher
BASS Abe Luboff
Peter Mercurio
Harold Brown
Milton Kestenbaum
Meyer Rubin
Ray Siegel
FLUTE Martin Ruderman
Sylvia Ruderman
June Russo
Arthur Smith
CLARINET Mitchell Lurie
John Neufeld
Dominick Fera
OBOE Arnold Koblentz
William Criss
BASSOON Jack Marsh
Norman Herzberg
FRENCH HORN Vincent DeRosa
Richard Perissi
John Cave
Gale Robinson
Herman Lebow
TRUMPET Uan Rasey
Emanuel Klein
Maurice Harris
TROMBONE Lloyd Ulyate
Richard Noel
Seymour Zeldin
TUBA Sam Rice
PIANO/
KEYBOARDS Raymond Turner
Pearl Kaufman
HARP Dorothy Remsen
DRUMS/
PERCUSSION Louis Singer
Lee Perrin
Hubert Anderson
Shelly Manne
Milton Holland
ARRANGER/
ORCHESTRATOR
Leo Shuken
Jack Hayes
COPYIST Lloyd Basham
W. D. Garlock
Jack McTaggart
Paul Sprosty
Percival Goldenson
Wally Heglin
Paul Van Loan
Arthur Grier
Dominic Fidelibus
Wolfgang Fraenkel
Howard Drew
Charles Adams
Michael Andersen
Larry Cramer
Roman Maciejewski
